Sandra Safari
Software Staff Writer,
Sandra Safari serves a unique dual role at TechInKenya as both a Software Engineer and a Tech Journalist. Operating at the intersection of infrastructure engineering and media, she brings a deeply technical perspective to her reporting and a storyteller’s clarity to her code.
On the engineering front, Sandra specializes in modern cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cloudflare. She is a strong advocate for serverless architecture, regularly designing and running highly available applications utilizing Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Run, and AWS Lambda.
As a journalist, Sandra translates her hands-on engineering experience into actionable tech journalism. She writes comprehensive infrastructure guides that help local developers scale their applications, while also breaking down corporate tech news and industry shifts. A self-professed tech event enthusiast, Sandra closely tracks global developer summits—including Apple's WWDC, Google I/O, and regional Android conferences—bringing fresh, frontline insights back to the Kenyan tech ecosystem.
Latest Articles by Sandra Safari
The Monopoly on Trust: How Google Is Quietly Locking You Out of Your Own Hardware
GrapheneOS users are getting locked out of their cars, flagged to law enforcement for choosing a private operating system, and treated as anomalies by platforms they pay to use. The escape hatch has its own wall, and it is being built by companies that are not even aware they are building it.
Google Is Breaking the 20-Year Promise That Made Android Great
For two decades, the single most powerful argument for choosing Android over iPhone was simple: freedom. You did not have to play by anyone's rules. You could install any app, from anywhere, built by anyone, without asking permission. That was not just a feature. It was the founding philosophy of an entire ecosystem.
Google I/O Extended Nairobi Is Back Tomorrow — Here Is What You Need to Know
After a one-year break, one of Nairobi's most anticipated developer events is returning. Google I/O Extended Nairobi 2026, organised by the Google Developer Group (GDG) Nairobi, is set for Saturday, June 20, 2026, at the Simba Corporation Aspire Centre on Waiyaki Way, Westlands. The doors open at 8:00 AM and the day runs through to 5:00 PM (EAT).
How to Properly Handle M-Pesa STK Push Timeouts and Disconnections Without Losing Transaction State
This guide is about fixing all of that. We will cover the complete defense strategy for STK Push reliability: understanding what can actually go wrong, building a state machine that survives network failures, using the STK Query API as your safety net, making your callback handler truly idempotent, and setting up a background reconciliation job that catches anything the real-time flow misses.
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off on Monday, June 8, and true to form, it was packed with software announcements. There were no major hardware announcements during the keynote. Instead, Apple focused on the next generation of Apple Intelligence, a rebuilt version of Siri, refinements to the Liquid Glass interface introduced last year, and the annual refresh of its major operating systems.
Google Fights Back: Everything That Has Changed With Gemini's Compute-Based Usage Limits
Google's Gemini just had one of its most turbulent weeks in recent memory. What started as a quiet but significant policy shift at Google I/O 2026 quickly escalated into a full-blown revolt from paying subscribers, forcing the company to respond with a rapid series of fixes, clarifications, and concessions
AI Scams Are Now Kenya's Biggest Digital Payment Threat, Visa Report Warns
A newly released global report from Visa has officially named AI-powered fraud and social engineering as the single largest threat facing digital payments. For Kenya, one of Africa's most digitally advanced economies, the warning could not be more urgent.
Kenya Has the Most Expensive Diesel in East Africa. Here Is Why, and Who Is Responsible.
Following EPRA's latest review, which took effect on May 15, 2026, super petrol in Nairobi now retails at KSh 214.25 per litre. Diesel has climbed to KSh 242.92 per litre, making it the highest diesel price ever recorded in Kenya's history. The increases over the previous cycle were sharp: petrol rose by KSh 16.65 per litre and diesel by a staggering KSh 46.29 per litre.
Africa's CES Moment Is Here: Everything You Need to Know About AI Everything Kenya x GITEX 2026
AI Everything Kenya x GITEX Kenya 2026 is arriving in Nairobi from May 19 to 21, and it is bringing the same calibre of global tech excitement to our backyard.
WhatsApp Has Ads Now. Here Is Why I Switched to Signal (And You Should Consider It Too)
If you have been using WhatsApp lately, you may have noticed something new and unwelcome showing up between your status updates: advertisements. The platform that built its entire reputation on being a clean, private, and ad-free messaging service has officially crossed a line that many users never thought it would.